What blogs do you guys follow? I don't mean the mass-market commercial blogs like Slashdot or Engadget, but actual original writing. I'm looking for some more interesting reading to fill out my Google Reader list. I'll start: Paul Graham (Silicon Valley/Boston venture capitalist) has a blog on tech startups, and startups in general. Damn Interesting infrequently posts long essays about fascinating stuff. Random, but great reading. Stuff White People Like is a great parody blog, explaining to non-white people how to pretend to like things that all white people like. For example, Moleskine notbeooks, Asian girls, yoga, and Arrested Development. [Edited by - BeanDog on July 31, 2009 2:57:40 PM]

Glenn Greenwald -- The sharpest analysis of civil liberties issues on the www.

The Daily Howler -- Bob Somerby -- one of the first and still among the best media critics on the www.

Paul Graham was interesting (assuming you could get past his ego) when he was still talking about technology. Since he's apparently pure VC management now he hasn't had anything interesting to say for a long time.

My dailies are:

The Old New Thing for insight as to why Windows is the way it is.
Coding Horror. Basically tech philosophy.
The Daily WTF. Chuckle and/or groan at other people doing dumb things. Starts to get old after a while. I mostly still read it out of habit.
Schneier on Security. Learn the difference between security and security theater.
Contrary Brin. Sci-fi author David Brin on politics, among other things. One of the few instances where somebody on the net has changed my mind about something. His ego may be even bigger than Paul Graham's.
World Changing. Interesting stuff going on in at the intersection of green and tech.

I basically just read a few design, illustration and animation blogs. I don't use RSS; I visit the sites when I'm in the mood.

Cartoon Brew
Drawn!
Motionographer

Lessbread beat me to Greenwald.
My other must-read is Pharyngula. It focuses on the science of evolution, but that also unfortunately means some religious fundamentalism and other shams that try to pass as science are discussed (not to say that it's unfortunate that it's discussed; it's unfortunate that they exist to require debunking). That aside, Meyers exposes his audience to some interesting science and there's always some good critical thinking to appreciate.

Blether with Brian (Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland's Political Editor - I've actually met him, very intelligent and pleasant man)
Peston's Picks (Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor)
Stephanomics (Stephanie Flanders, BBC Economics Editor)

I also look at TheDailyWTF.com, EngrishFunny and, of course, the well known FAILblog.org which I feel needs no introduction.

I guess this blog-following thing might be worth looking into....

Thumbs up for the OldNewThing. I don't read it regularly, but it's a "must check with first" site when looking for insights into Windows programming.

It's updated very erratically, but I like the idea of Revealing Errors. It's very much in the hacker spirit.

Suitably game development oriented: I Get Your Fail.

There, I Fixed It is always good for laughs.

Then of course there are the Gawker "blogs" I <3 - Uncrate, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, io9, Jalopnik, and yes, even Fleshbot (NSFW)